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William E. Conklin, Professor of Law

Legal Theory Jurisprudence (Chapter in books)

  • "The Assimilation of the People into a Modern Legal Discourse" in Roberta Kevelson ed., Law and the Human Sciences (New York: Peter Lang, 2000), 61-75.
  • "Legal Modernity and Early Amerindian Laws" in Loon, ed., Sociology of Law (Antwerp, 1999), 115-28.
  • "Constitutionalism" in C B Gray, Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopaedia vol. 1 (New York: Garland, 1999), 154-58.
  • "Authority" in C B Gray, Philosophy of Law: An Encyclopaedia vol. 1 (New York: Garland, 1999), 66-69.
  • "The Semiotics of Law" in Paul Bouissac ed.,Oxford Encyclopaedia of Semiotics (N.Y./Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): 360-64.
  • "The Semiotics of Legal Discourse" in Paul Bouissac ed., Oxford Encyclopaedia of Semiotics (N.Y./Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): 356-59.
  • "The Authoritative Assimilation of the Other within a Master Discourse" in Stephen Wiggins ed, Others in Discourse: Rhetoric and Politics of Exclusion (New York: Sage, 1997): 226-48.
  • "Hegel, the Author and Authority in Sophocles' Antigone" in Leslie G. Rubin, ed., Justice vs. Law in Greek Political Thought (New York/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997): 129-51.
  • "The End of Judicial Review" in Constitutional Review Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit Constitutionele Toetsingedited by Bert van Roermund (Zwolle, Netherlands: Tjeenk Willink, 1992) and republished in Current Legal Theory (1992) vol. 1.
  • "A Contract" in Richard Devlin, ed., Canadian Perspectives on Legal Theory (Toronto: Emond / Montgomery, 1991). Reprinted in part in Christine Boyle and David R. Percy, eds., Contracts: cases and materials (Toronto: Carswell, 1999; 6th ed.), 690-92.
  • "The Practice and Theory of Constitutional Rights" in Guy Lafrance, ed.,The Philosophy of Basic Rights (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1990).
  • "Capital Punishment and a Democratic Society" in Julio Menezes, ed., Decade of Adjustment: Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Issues (Toronto: Butterworths, 1980), 21 pages (lead article); and reprinted in Wesley Cragg, ed., Contemporary Moral Issues (Toronto: McGraw-Hill/Ryerson, 1983).


Legal Theory/Jurisprudence Articles in Books
 

  • 2009. Book review re Oren Ben-Dor, Thinking about Law: in silence with Heidegger (Oxford: Hart, 2007) in Windsor Yearb. Access to Justice (vol. 26, 2008)
  • 2007 . “Statelessness and Bernhard Waldenfels’ Phenomenology of the Alien” in British J Phenomenology 38 (2007): 280-96.
  • 2006. “A Phenomenological Theory of the Human Rights of the Alien” in Ethical Perspectives 13 (2006): 245-301.
  • 2006. “Lon Fuller’s Phenomenology of Language” in International J for Semiotics of Law” 19 (2006): 93-125.
  • 2006. “Kelsen on Norms and Language” in Ratio Juris 19 (2006): 101-26.
  • 2006. “Introduction: Some Problems concerning Human Rights” in Windsor Yearb. Access to Justice 26 (2006): v-vii.
  • “Legal Rhetoric in Canadian Civil Society: a Review Essay” in Topia 1(2004): 134-41.
  • “The Place of the People in John Austin’s Structuralism” in Michel Troper and Annalisa Verza eds., Legal Philosophy: General Aspects, Concepts, Rights and Doctrines (ARSP Beiheft Nr. 82 of Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilsophie (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002): 184-200.
  • “The Trap” in Law and Critique 13 (2002): 1-28. Lead article to volume.
  • “Whither Justice? The Common Problematic of Five Models of ‘Access to Justice’ in Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 19 (2001): 297-316.
  • "Alternatives to the Study of Legal Texts: An Annotated Bibliography of Legal Phenomenology and Legal Semiotics" in Current Legal Theory 16 (1999): 3-61.
  • "Husserl, the Differend and Kafka's The Trial” in Analecta Husserliana 49 (1996): 115-25, ed by Anne-Teresa Tymieniecka.
  • "The Invisible Author of Legal Authority" in Law and Critique 7 (1996): 173-92.
  • "The Trace of Legal Idealism in Derrida's Grammatology of Law" in Philosophy and Social Criticism 22 (1996): 17-42.
  • "The Secret Foundation of Sovereignty in Legal Positivism" in Rechstheorie, Beiheft 17 (1996): 75-84.
  • "Human Rights, Language and Law: a Survey" in (1995) Ottawa Law Review: 129-73.
  • "Access to Justice' as Access to a Lawyer's Language" in (1991) 10 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (28 pages).
  • "The Legal Theory of Horkheimer and Adorno" in (1985), 5 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 230 (27 pages).
  • "Clear Cases" 31 (1981) University of Toronto Law Journal 231, 17 pages (lead article).